• The Traitors brings the drama, The Cheap Seats brings the laughs
• Seven turns chaotic canines into perfect pooches
Total TV Ratings, October 11
Lifting 31%, The Block had 1,303,000 tune in as Ankur and Sharon were told their living and dining rooms had to be fixed ahead of the room reveals.
On Seven, This Is You Life cracked open the Big Red Book for Gold Logie-winner Ray Meagher, with 1,113,000 tuning in as the show took a look into Ray’s career in film and theatre, lifting 18%.
Take 5 with Zan Rowe took a stroll down memory lane with Tony Armstrong alongside 554,000 viewers, up 25%.
The second part of Todd Sampson’s Mirror Mirror lifted 17%, with 498,000 watching as the show looked into how the internet influences hate speech.
Overnight TV Ratings, October 18
Primetime News
Seven News 858,000/871,000
Nine News 720,000/716,000
ABC News 575,000
10 News First 245,000 (5:00pm)/163,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 126,000 (6:30pm)/105,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 554,000
7.30 497,000
The Project 203,000 (6:30pm)/ 306,000 (7pm)
The Drum 138,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 220,000
Today 206,000
News Breakfast 176,000
Late News
The Latest: Seven News 96,000
Nine News Late 83,000
ABC Late News 46,000
SBS World News Late 38,000
Nine has won the night with a primary share of 23.3% and a network share of 31.6%. 7Mate came out on top for multichannels with a share of 3.8%.
A Current Affair kicked the evening off for Nine, with 554,000 watching as the show confronted a fake healer who had been pretending to be a solicitor. Everyone is behind schedule on The Block, and with only 10 working days left, the pressure is on. 735,000 tuned in as the show eased some of the heartache by bringing in the contestant’s families for a visit. A repeat of Travel Guides then took 387,000 to Mauritius.
Seven’s Home and Away drew a crowd of 473,000. Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly turned troublesome pooches into dream dogs for 307,000 viewers. The Good Doctor then had 212,000 tune in.
The ABC’s 7.30 asked what a wellbeing budget would look like, and interviewed health minister Mark Butler for 497,000. Take 5 With Zan Rowe picked the brain of the legendary Tori Amos for 334,000 viewers, before Tom Gleeson’s Secrets of the Australian Museum dug back into history alongside 349,000.
The Project (203,000 6:30pm / 306,000 7pm) asked what the deal is with all the potholes in roads at the moment, and interviewed Aunty Donna. Three Faithfuls were shown the door on The Traitors, with 265,000 watching a murder, a banishment, and a walkout. The Cheap Seats then interviewed Melbourne Vixens and Australian Diamonds player Jo Weston in front of 319,000.
The highest rating show on SBS was Great Coastal Railway Journeys with 161,000 viewers.
